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A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me by Gates, David

ISBN: 9781781254912 PUBLISHER: Serpent's Tail FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 320 PUBLICATION DATE: 6.08.2015 DIMENSIONS: 21.6 x 13.6 x 2.1 centimetres 12.6 ounces

DESCRIPTION: A woman moving calamitously into middle-age; a musician taking in a friend with terminal cancer; a failed actor moving to the country: cynical, unreliable, sinking into middle age or alcoholism, dealing with physical decline or mediocrity, Gates's characters are a dark reflection of our own urban and suburban lives. Terrifyingly self-aware, overcome by the burdens of the human condition, they find their impulses pulling them away from comfort into distraction or catastrophe. But wherever it is they're going - and sometimes it's nowhere fast - they won't go gently. Relentlessly inventive, by turns comical, caustic and tragic (and often all three together) but always moving, the novella and ten short stories which make up A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me reinforce David Gates as 'a true heir to both Raymond Carver and John Cheever.' (New York Magazine).

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